Battlefield 1942 is the first installment in the Battlefield series, developed by DICE. It was released for PC in 2002. The game lets the players engage in infantry combat and get behind the wheel of a variety of vehicles from submarines to battleships and bombers. The game also introduced mainstay Battlefield concepts such as the tactical game mode Conquest and team play functionality. Spotting enemies and repairing damaged vehicles are essential Battlefield elements that have been part of the series ever since. Unlike other FPS games of the era, team play was essential and highly rewarded, which played a huge part in its success. Battlefield 1942 propelled DICE to global acclaim and gave them a world-wide fan base.
Battlefield 1942 had a variety of unique features that sets it apart from any other first-person shooters of its time. Due to its large scale of combat for a game of its time due to the addition of vehicles from tanks to aircraft. Expanding the size of the maps giving the player a full sense of warfare from the ground to the sky. These combat zones affect one and another allowing the player to get a full understanding of what it would have been like to experience the second world war form different perspectives. Another feature that sets the battlefield franchise is the Conquest game mode as it forces you to work as a team to dominate the opposition by capturing strategic points on the map resembling real life military tactics.
The main innovating feature for Battlefield 1942 is its large-scale matchmaking as it pushes the boundaries of multiplayer games. By the number of players that could be in a map which a total of 64 players. Which at its time most games where restricted to the number of player could play in a match and most games were based on local servers.
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